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>>11588000 (OP)
The fact that they decided to keep the usual animation error of mistaking his forehead for a visor is both fucking stupid and hilarious. I like it.

>>11588000 (OP)
Nice get.
Anyway, I'm really warming up to Chase. The transformation is a touch fiddly but I like him a lot overall, will make a nice addition to my police Autobots (unless I make him into Barricade, which I might).
Reminds me, I still need a CHUG G1 Prowl. Did the Siege reissue already come out?

>>11587726
>any figures I missed the first time are expensive as all fuck now.
>any figures I scrambled to get are all on sale now.
My life is pain.

What's the verdict on the new Alpha Trion

>>11588003
>CHUG G1 Prowl. Did the Siege reissue already come out?
My local collector shop got it in. Thats the only place Ive seen it so far

>>11588000 (OP)
When does he go up

>>11588009
Same. Happens all the fuckin time. For me, most recently was Bonecrusher and Retro Gears. This past spring I went on a mad dash for them and spent two weeks hunting every day only for them to both end up shelfwarming. Well, Bonecrusher was never a shelfwarmer, but very readily available. Poor Gears ended up on clearance. I think that was back in late March and I havent hunted for another figure since. Actually I did go hunting for Earthspark Soundwave but I found him on my first stop on my first hunt lol

It took five years to finish the Headmaster Small/Junior Decepticons
Using the tooling of molds from 2016, nine years ago...
On one hand I'm happy they at least finish what they started, but on the other hand, what a Pyrrhic victory to completionests this all was.

Is Swerve in the leaks? I keep seeing people remark that the Minibots will be complete next year after Powerglide but we are still missing Swerve

I'm starting to grow an "ow the edge" team too

>>11588023
Needs moar Murderbee.

>>11588021
I had to look up Phyrric Victory lol. Thanks anon you taught me something new for the day. I couldnt agree more. They are a particularly egregious example of the way they space out all teams and it is very annoying to me too. I really think it would be better for them to start busting shit out in closer succession. Even Bruticus is nuts. Releasing Vortex before Onslaught even has a prototype.

>>11588023
Fucking hell that Red Alert recolor wears the mold so much better.

>$30 for a shitty gimmick fig with zero articulation
kek

>>11588020
>Spend twice as much for a figure on Ebay because he's nowhere for months.
>Week later, online shops all suddenly get him in stock.
Devcon and Steeljaw are the most recent offenders

>>11588021
Skipped all the 4 packs. I'm hoping TT makes a DCS or whatever box set for it.

>>11588021
>>11588025
Hasbro butters its plain bread with delicious pain.

>>11587986 Hasbro owns the name so it’s usable.

>>11588022
Yes he is. He comes before Powerglide but I believe Tailgate is the last one. He comes either at the same time as Powerglide or right after him.

>>11588043
I worry if they will change anything or if it will be like the Monsterbots two pack and it's just the same figures 1 for 1 but with a good mark up anyway. Alternatively the DCS figures are a good 5 years out of the first releases so at the earliest we see them would be 2030 and by that point we might be seeing updated toolings anyway.

>>11588054
I was just trying to clarify if anon's OC idea was inspired by the nerf gun

>>11588058
Yes

>>11588073
I like that idea as a cross over. That the Nerf gun turns into the green Rhino

Got Devastation Sideswipe from Target with their discount today. He's the same mold as Siege so I don't know what I was expecting, but eh, nice to have and earth mode version of him since I skipped Earthrise or whenever his last release was. I saw people talking about headswaps, since the new one is inaccurate, how easy is it to pop the heads off Siege and Devastation Sideswipes?

>>11588002
What do you mean?

>>11588138
> how easy is it to pop the heads off Siege and Devastation Sideswipes?
you need to remove the two pins going through the sides of the torso to get to the head

>>11588000 (OP)
Galaxy Shuttle recolor when
[spoiler]astro train galaxy shuttle looks like shit in shuttle mode so I dont want that[/spoiler]

>>11588185
>Galaxy Shuttle recolor when
I'm tired of Galaxy Shuttle recolors. I want him to get a mold all to himself. Unfortunately, I feel like it would have to be a HasLab, and there's no way in fucking hell I'm giving my money to a fucking HasLab at this point.

>>11588191
Maybe you'll get a shot with a Gen Selects repaint of Armada Jetfire
In about 8 years

nu-Masterpiece Soundwave preorders are up on western sites
175 USD

>>11588158
He's seen some shit. Maybe Lovecraft was right, and there are unspeakable things lurking in the dark gulfs of space.

So Mixmaster and Scavenger arrived today, finally I've got all the Constructicons.

I'm a bit confused though. Everybody was hyping up Mixmaster as one of the best of the set, and I just don't see why. He's far from terrible (that'd be Bonecrusher and Scavenger) but he doesn't do much to really impress me, he just does his job. I think Scrapper's better than him.

Am I the only one who faces getting in trouble for buying Transformers? Every time I have a figure in the mail I feel like this might be it. This might be the time she kills me.

>>11588247
All of them are mid as fuck. Its like trying to pick who is the prettiest at the ugly show

>>11588256
I'd call Scavenger the worst. So many mismatched shades of green and a poorly-engineered transformation procedure.

>>11588255
none of us have a she, anon.
why do you have to be so mean?

>>11588247
I don't think anyone was hyping him up because he was the best, but just because he was the last. By then, people had all the other guys. Even Scavenger was out before Mixmaster.

>>11588259
I'd rate Bonecrusher lower. His proportions in robot mode are so gimpy.

>>11588255
Imagine having a significant other.

>>11588042
don't forget road pig. Just recently Walmart threw him on sale for $15 when he's been ~$40 on sites like Amazon and bbts for a while.

>>11588267
Yeah the arm bots and neck and neck for worst of the set, but Scavenger irritates me just a bit little bit more. Bonecrusher definitely has issues though.

>>11588275
Mixmaster and Scrapper are annoying just because they shouldn't be Voyager priced. there's nothing that indicates they have more engineering. They don't even have waist swivels.

>>11588260
>>11588270
Welp at least you guys can buy Transformers without soul crushing guilt trips and threats

>>11588291
One ratchet joint costs $10 sorry I don't make the rules

>>11587970
i like it

>>11588270
i'd rather be alone than pick one who doesn't like my hobbies
or god, even worse, what if I don't like hers. I could not marry a woman with a funko pop addiction.

>>11588247
>He's far from terrible (that'd be Bonecrusher
bonecrusher is the BEST

>>11588247
I saw a lone Mixmaster at Target today when I went to see their toy reset. I already completed my Devastator though.

>>11588292
If she doesn't love all your transformers too and think they're the greatest thing ever, divorce her.

Does this general care for skybound spoilers or are people still in that "Skybound sucks" era here

>>11588316
Usually we don't care, it's always just more grimdark suffering and grimy art.

>>11588316
I'm sure that one anon can whip up responses like people care

>>11588311
>If she doesn't love all your transformers too and think they're the greatest thing ever, divorce her.
If you complain about your wife on TFW you get dozens of people giving this advice unironically lol

>>11588247
Opened my Mixmaster just last night, and I'd say he's easily my favorite of the Constructicons so far (still haven't gotten Scavenger though), but not to a point that he'd necessarily be worth hyping up over it. Also, part of my enthusiasm for him might simply be that I find this new mold so much better than the CW version of Mixmaster, so that might make me a bit biased.

>>11588311
>>11588329
actually if she's stayed this long, you should probably hang on to her like grim death

>>11588297
Someone once told me if you need a wife with the same hobbies you might just be wanting a boyfriend

>>11588333
Checked and yep Im not letting her go anywhere. Shes the only one who has ever tolerated me for longer than a year.

>>11588334
how cute would he be?

>>11588334
and that's the reason I don't rag on my 'bisexual' friends, especially the ones that admit they would rather be with women if they could just find a sane one.
you don't have to have the SAME hobbies, but the same category of hobbies. I remember this one webcomic guy who was super into godzilla, had a million vinyls and shit.. his wife was way into hello kitty. their wedding cake topper was a lil godzilla with kitty couple. Fuckin beautiful.

I want to have sex with this

>>11588348
Cute. I use that same head on one of my custom Megaempresses

>>11588033
LMAO
Megatron really let himself go.

"they won't let me be a gun anymore... Optimus always wins... My 2nd in command is always questioning me... what am I even doing anymore?"
[sitting on the couch eating a big bowl of energon]

>>11588381
That's just Long Haul wearing a bucket on his head.

>>11588381
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

>>11588382
It's a repaint of TLK Hound gimmick toy with new head & backpack.

>>11588388
Wow, that screams desperation.

>>11588023
add in soundblaster, shattered glass hotrod and magnificus.

>>11588033
even worse is that is just a head swapped AOE hound. You can buy a second hand voyager class figure off ebay for probably cheaper than that

>>11588348
Which Megatron body is this?

>>11588385
I want to have sex with this

>>11588410
TF one megatron.

>>11588413
I meant to say which ONE Megatron toy.

>>11588421
Studio Series 114

>>11588319
>>11588328
great

spoilers:
so; Miles Mayhem from M.A.S.K. is working for the U.S. military. The military also dug up mirage and bulkhead from under the sea and under a pyramid in Egypt. Also: wheeljack found dinosaur fossils; so dinobots soon
skybound 25 spoilers over
general criticism time
the new artist draws most of the autobots/decepticons based off.. fucking yolopark model kits. Not even real transforming figures.

>>11588372
same
>>11588411
same

>>11588433
He looks amazing. Now I regret buying the blokees ONE Megatron.

>>11588435
oh wait. You were serious? Dude anyone here is also in the /co/ threads and if they are not, I doubt they even read over your post and just get back to the toy posts.

>>11588300
What did Bumblebee ever do to him?

>Upcoming Transformers
https://pastebin.com/nh6mbtfw (embed) (updated)
>Leaks and Rumors
https://pastebin.com/2QivfSSE
>Online Stores for TFs
https://pastebin.com/3raSp3ZY
>Where to watch TF shows:
https://pastebin.com/sR4Y7xWi
>Transformers General Archives:
https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/%2Ftfg%2F%20-%20Transformers%20General/

>New thread on page 9 or 10 or at image limit

>forgot one (embed)
FUCK, ignore that

>>11588459
There he goes, again

>>11588468
Hey, actually wasn't me this time. But then again, I only did it for a handful of threads anyway - it was never just one person.

>>11588470
No, we're definitely one person, don't lie to our schizo, anon, it would be like kicking a pus-ridden dog

>>11588247
The biggest gripe I have with the set is that they are overly simplified and have ugly engineering. Bonecrusher is probably the wonkiest, with his refusal to stay oriented properly in arm mode and that they somehow gave him even more dumpy proportions than the cw version. Everything else I can begrudgingly say is fine, although I do worry that if I leave Scavenger un-combined he might float away with how light he is.

>>11588242
He saw idw make him gay.

>>11588488
The real biggest gripe is that it once again is Hasbro showing the words "Studio Series" is meaningless since they're just downscaled versions Combiner Wars toys (and Long Haul).

>>11588497
as predicted when they started the 86 line Studio Series just became a back fill for whatever they can't fit into the other line(s).

>>11588501
And yet you'll have tards in these threads go "no it's SUPER ACCURATE TO THE CARTOON ARRRGH I HATE IT"

Seaspray came while mommy gf was taking a nap! The toy gods smile upon me today. Lets see if the qc gods show me such favor

>>11588504
I feel like that logic had to die when they did the core sized Ironhide, Ratchet, etc. Those were clearly hold overs from Kingdom core class figures

>the good
-Aesthetically very sharp. Extremely G1 accurate and very slick lookikg
-Hes the tallest and heaviest of all the Deluxe Minibots. Very substantial feeling.
(Hes damn near too big. I figure this was so he could his boat mode could be a nicer scale with his teammates. As is, he comes off as tanky)
>the bad
-This figure has a design flaw with his waist. Its off center due to using a sideways mushroom peg like 86 Bee. This causes his waist and hip to collide very badly.
-He has a part on the back of one of his feet that falls off if you look at it wrong
-Ankle tilt range is very poor
>Head articulation is very poor. The balljoint is far more restricted than it needed to be
>the ugly
-His arms are a bit too long. His proportions could be a bit more heroic if they were just a bit shorter
-His fists are slightly offset to the outside of his forearms. It really bugs me they arent centered.

might be a first for this thread- a cyberworld figure review

Armored Cyber Changers Optimus Prime

essentially a core class beast hunters Optimus Prime. This guy is.. fairly decent. No elbows sucks but the shoulder articulation is pretty good for having giant micromaster shoulder pylons on ball joints. Legs are also surprisingly decent. The big draw is the gun backpack and one step transformation.. and these are neat. Gun backpack reminds me of M.A.S.K. and it's also a jetwing prime type thing in robot mode. The one step transformation was very damn tight out of the box but once I loosened it up it works pretty well. Fun, but not worth 15 dollars. Grab a core class DOTM bumblebee and paint it black and you've got the start to a beast hunters core collection.

Just saw these on Facebook
Haven't seen such up close pictures yet
I "like" it, but something seems off

>>11588589
The only thing off is the $43 price tag.

>>11588000 (OP)

Didn't know this existed until yesterday, got it off E-bay!!!FACT!!!

>>11588609
lmao you got a bootleg kid

>>11588000 (OP)
Are there any plans for Hasbro to make more Beast Machines toys? I'd love a BM Primal.

>>11588589
>something seems off
They flew too close to the Sunbow. The face, shoulders, fists, thighs and knees look like theyre made of bubblegum

>>11588621
No they don't.

>>11588616
No.

>>11588589
The gray parts also look like theyre made of clay. They de-greebled it to zero. The shoulders, thighs, and feet have literally zero greebling. I think thats some of the reasons this looks strange.

>>11588609
ah Takara.. Tomy used to do this with Zoids allll the time, I guess they were destined to merge.

>>11588588
desperately needs metallic paint. That bland grey looks so fucking bad.

Also this unpainted bit is ugly.

>>11588629
Not everything needs to be metallic. They're cartoon characters, let them look like their cartoon selves.

>>11588589
Yikes

>>11588631
They're metallic in the cartoon too, dumbassio.

>>11588629
The hinge looks awful too.

>>11588624
That is a pity. Are there plans for more Armada toys at least?

>>11588636
Yes, Jetfire is next year.

>>11588589
>>11588591
Im calling it right now, his chest/shoulder/back/wing assembly isnt going to stay tabbed together properly. I can already see it from here

>>11588589
How does it scale with 86 megatron? Did the seekers get a height boost like soundwave or is it the same as the ER?

>>11588633
No they aren't you retard. He's flat grey in the cartoon. I bet you think Thundercracker, Megatron, Optimus and Grimlock all have silver in the cartoon too despite all 4 of them being colored different just because the toys were chromed or had silver paint.

>>11588616
how the hell would they pull that off? their transformations were magical.

>>11588632
i'll take honeycombing over a blank hollow anyday

>>11588651
>what is animation shorthand

>>11588651
Silver paint objectively looks better though. This is why I hate tooners.

>>11588616
They said yes but not at the moment. They did point out how people wanted updated vehicons in particular.

>>11588666
>Silver paint objectively looks better though.
- Quote from man desperate to sell his solid silver Heroes of Cybertron figures that nobody wants

>>11588651
>hurrr optimus's grill is totally supposed to be a flat white color guys because my retarded brain takes colors in a retarded cheap 80s cartoon literally

>>11588651
Do you draw, friendo? And if so, do you use traditional paper and pencil rather than on a computer, the way these guys did for the cartoon? Let me tell you from experience: it is fucking HARD to depict chrome by hand, and even harder to try to animate something that reflective, even for short frames. Those flat greys, like a lot of other things seen in the cartoon and movie, are a shortcut to save on time, budget and stress on the animators. Given this was all basically a glorified toy commercial, kids at home would have known those were supposed to be metallic because they'd be familiar with how the toys already looked.

>>11588616
Is this a good toy if I'm apathetic to Beast Machines Cheetor

>>11588655
>a blank hollow
I think that is exactly what the photo is pointing out. He has no ribcage

It's so weird that this sort of bitching only ever happens for G1 and not any of the other cartoons ever made.

>>11588682
depends on if you like how it looks, the engineering is fairly generic beast mode fare aside from the interesting legs, so it's not like you'll be getting a masterpiece transformation

dual swords are always neat though

>>11588527
If the minibots are all scaled up, are they really minibots anymore? Did the show ever refer to them as minibots?

>>11588692
they were only ever mini vehicles in the packaging, aside from wheelie and bumblebee their size wasn't really used often in the cartoon

they did show up in groups occasionally though, like in golden lagoon or five faces of darkness

>>11588686
ohhhhhh I see what you mean now. yeah that is fucking awful

>>11588688
Are you a 90s kid like me? because I think there's something we just barely missed about the 80s
for 80s kids, this was IT. there was no other quality entertainment, all older animation was just cheap hanna-barbera crud. Shows like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, they touched these people as deeply as anime did for us as 00s teenagers.

>>11588690
>if you like how it looks
I do not
>dual swords are always neat though
They are

>>11588702
That's not answering the question about why whenever the G1 cartoon did something people immediately chimp out that it was wrong to do so.

>>11588713
because the more IMPORTANCE you give something, the more eager you are to nitpick the issues with it. Like, if you think there's a problem with corruption in the US government, and you're a flag-wavin' red-blooded fella, you're gonna think that is a MAJOR problem that has to be dealt with severely. Whereas if you hear there's corruption in ... Djibouti or something, you just shrug 'figures.'
These shows sit in reverence. Every little error they make is like someone mistranslating a fucking bible verse. you feel like this "really happened" and that it's somehow important to get to the heart of it.

>>11588348
femboytron

>>11588692
Most of the updated minibots released are still smaller than deluxe carbots. The only ones that are roughly the same height as them are seaspray and warpath.

When does blast off go up for preorder?

>>11588674
Hasbro used to have a really nice silver paint for stuff

So while out shopping earlier, local Wal-Mart started stocking leader class again and happened to have both Megatronus and SS86 Megatron, opted for Megatronus but are his joints are super loose.

>>11588748
He, Windcharger, Quintus, Sureshot, Quickstrike, and Jalopy are all already up for PO...on HLJ. The question is, are you willing to deal with the tariff prices when they finally ship, or are you willing to wait for them to show up on Pulse and MAYBE get a preorder in before they inevitably sell out?

>>11588781
Willing to wait as I had to pay 75 bucks for hlj to ship a miku prize fig Gundam

>>11588627
>>11588621
the edges are so rounded out, it looks real cheap. I'm getting real sick of slavish toon accuracy

>>11588588
>>11588589
>>11588591
Looks like a fucking bootleg KWAB

>>11588793
I'm too old to know what KWAB is and have been here too long to know you're Athena

>>11588793
Wait I'm retarded I thought you were Athena because I thought you were shittalking someone for posting a bootleg because I thought it was a shitty bootleg...

Oy vey

>>11588589
Looks much better than the ER seeker mold design wise but that plastic...yuck. Im not sure if it's from the lack of detail/greebling or if it's just how it is regardless but it almost looks like some kind of cheap R.E.D or authentics figure like the plastic used for 86 soundwave. So close to a perfect chug seeker yet they still somehow dropped the ball. Hopefully skywarp and starscream looks better.

>>11588800
those are really soft angles, yeah

>>11588589
Has a non-neutral facial expression. Enjoy the 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 figures that actually has some character to it.

>>11588817
Theres a reason none of them have facial expressions. Because they look dumb as fuck. I was actually very disappointed to see he has an expression. Now if we could actually have multiple faces / heads it would be a totally different story

Im impressed with Seaspray’s alt mode. He mass shifts from big to even bigger

He feels really big for a deluxe. Every once in a while Hasbro throws us a bone and its always in the form of a minibot

This figure rocks. I modded his head so he can look down and now I love it.

>>11588842
that really does add a lot

>>11588849
Im telin ya! Its only 1mm and it makes all the difference in so many poses. Otherwise theyre always stuck “looking onward” I call it in my head. Cosmos got it right, a rare figure that has a cavity specifically so his head has clearance to move around. Seaspray and Cosmos’ design language are actually incredibly similar. In fact to the point that Seaspray actually seems like he may be an extremely extensive retool of Cosmos. Their transformations are very similar

>>11588589
>>11588591
It’s one of the nicest looking SS molds honestly, but it really sucks that you have to partsform the tail fins to the back of the wings. I’m sure they could have made it work without inflating the budget.

>>11588855
it's funny, the whole mecha genre has always been designed around things being towering and impressive, yet the vast majority don't have any downward head movement built in.. maybe because they're very much like knight armor, which definitely couldn't look down since that would require a neck armor gap.. real obvious weak spot there..

>>11588867
It'd probably help if a majority of TF designs... actually had necks of some sort

>>11588875
that's kinda what i meant, yeah

>>11588855
very good figure, went into the store to check for onyx prime, no intent to buy seaspray, saw him, he looked good, was even better in hand, pleasantly surprised

also really like how the design evokes a kind of happy silly transformers beach episode aesthetic, need more cartoony figs like this one

blokees leakees

>>11588889
trypticon Unicron and Brawl IN ONE WAVE??!?!?!?
are they nuts? i will buy over 90000 of these because i wouldnt mind getting multiple trypticons at all

>>11588000 (OP)
Transformers Energon was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. I loved the designs of the Energon Stars and the idea of glowing super energy rocks.

Energon was basically a stand in for uranium.

>>11588858
You don't HAVE too, it's just for Autists who hate the Fins being on the legs

>>11588889
>first waifu blokee
LET'S GOOOO

>>11588002
it's a highwayman visor

>>11588629
Why do you fucking troglodyte retard shit for brains morons always beg for grey parts to be silver, but never ducking complain the rest of the figure isn't done in metallic paints? Do you think the big fucking metal robot is only shiny paint if it's grey?

You stupid cunts can't even realize the whole figure should all be metallic paint.

So got some more Blockees today and one of them is a Purple Optimus Prime. What the fuck is his deal? Black Prime I know is Scourge/Nemesis Prime and White Prime is Magnus. What the fuck is Purple Prime's deal for someone who didn't read the IDW comics (as he's listed as IDW version)?

>>11588916
Blockees fucked up and mislabeled their Purple Optimus Prime as being IDW Optimus instead of Shattered Glass Optimus Prime.

That said, the purple color has been used for two different Optimuses. One is Shattered Glass (IE evil mirror universe Optimus) and the second was for a Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover figure where they painted Optimus purple like Shinji's robot.

I want a new Sideways. Hasbro or blokees, I don't care. I just want him to have better robot proportions and the heads.

>>11588926
Same, but his old rider figure is still decent and comparable to recent core class for what it's worth.

>>11588926
With any luck we'll get images leaked soon enough. I really want to see how they do with him this time around.
>>11588931
I just wish they locked together better. That's my biggest hope for an improvement, that the minicon rider doesn't get Darth Maul'd if you look at him funny.

>>11588798
It means kek what a bozo

>>11588589
>>11588591
The engineering and proportions are OK but man, the utter lack of any surface detail makes him look really bad. The other SS86 figures had a decent level of greeble, he's gonna stick out like a sore thumb.

>>11589018
>the utter lack of any surface detail makes him look really bad
He looks like a fucking RED figure, same with 86 Soundwave.

>>11588926
>>11588931
>>11589012
I'm ready for the new figure to be a Prowl remold, but I'll still be pissed when it is.

>>11588875
>>11588867
They just don't care who they step on.

>>11588629
Why is hasbro obsessed with giving the seekers facial expressions? They never look good, and always look like shit.

Regardless, this is not worth $45 or whatever. What a fucking joke.

>>11588912
>ducking
You must be 18 or older to post on 4chan, you fucking child.

>>11588247
>Everybody was hyping up Mixmaster as one of the best of the set,

1. He is more accurate than the CW release
2. People were worried he was going to be short packed when amazon sold out and bbts raised their price on him. Walmart is starting to get 2 or 3 each, so that worry has settled down. Hook, etc, will probably be the real 2 to be short packed.

He's pretty good. They all are none of them should have been 35 however. And bonecrusher's dozer form is nonsense. Like some 20 year old designing an old 80s dozen from someone else describing it. Or some kind of fantasy cybertron dozen. Shame they got mix master right and stepped back on bonecrusher

I just feel like the prices keep going up but there’s not even an equivalent or even maintained degree of quality. I feel like I have everything I want and I have little reason to keep coming back to the line. If they should release a pair of pants for Armada Optimus or maybe an Animated Megatron or Lugnut in the future I might be interested, but for now I can’t justify the pricing of the modern TF line. It’s unfortunate and I understand that there are many people who are probably still invested in the line, but I just wanted to share my thoughts.

>>11589098
> I feel like I have everything I want

That is the thing

A lot of character shouldn't have been done in the previous years so people can get more excited with the 86 version
Or not in the form that is supposed to represent the cartoon version

like how Earthrise seekers release pretty much pull the rug under the 86 version

I really feel that they should push hard continue into the Japanese continuity and other later releases instead of free flapping between studio series in the classic line

Just got my Target 4 pack.
Why do they still put the instruction for all the figures on one sheet?
I want to check something, oh let me flip out my fucking roadmap....

Is this worth $50?

>>11588589
Well I'm glad I skipped all the Seige/Earthrise seekers now, but fuck me are these really gonna be leader class? Hasbro expects me to shell out $55 per seeker and sell them to me 3 times? Not counting the inevitable coneheads? And rainmakers?
This hobby is getting too exploitative for my tastes, fuck me.

Brawl is looking good, very nice head sculpt

>>11589186
They're voyagers, anon

>>11589022
At this point I'll even take a Groove repaint, and I skipped him years ago because I didn't like the mold.

>>11589192
Well that's easier to stomach, then. They look big for voyagers though, maybe I'm just used to them being smaller as of late.

>>11589157
Not even half of that, honestly. Dude doesn't even really transform, he just lies down.

So Nemesis and the Star Saber this weekend?

>>11589221
he just gets drunk and falls over

>>11589157
I love the irony that the original G1 cost around $36-$40 in 1987. And that thing is incredibly dense still holds up almost 40 years now that I have it.

>>11589206
looks about the same size as the ER mold

Why did people not like the ER Seeker mold?

>>11589313
retarded siege greeble aesthetic
no waist
no wrist swivels
no landing gear
lazy rehash of a nearly 20 year old toy

>>11589313
It was literally an upscaled Classics Seeker with bare minimum in terms of articulation upgrades. It's fine, especially for the coneheads who are total nobodies anyway, but it's not exactly spectacular.
That said the new one's utterly barren surfaces are awful. Will need to take a panel scriber to any I get.

>>11589313
Autism. It's perfectly fine. Not great, but fine.

"We are VENIN!"

>>11589413
>screaming bug noises

>"Together?"
>more screaming bug noises

>>11589423
>clicking bug noises
>louder screaming bug noises for those in the back

>>11589413
>>11589419
>>11589423
>>11589426
God he looks cool. Can't wait for mine.

>>11588895
Unicron is BAF in >>11588889 pic there is Unicron body A so we don't know how big it will be.

>>11588899
And second as Nightbird in next wave

>>11589451

I got lucky at Target. Finally, all seven Insecticons.

>>11589419
you painted the hinge?

>>11589413
Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees his face like this.
(Is he crying or drooling?)

>>11589313
I always hated the proportions. That torso looks like a brick.

>>11588025
>Releasing Vortex before Onslaught even has a prototype.
And we have to ask are they going to re-release him and bloat the market to make sure you can finish Bruticus? Or are they just going to skip to a team pack pulse exclusive?

>>11589551
Onslaught is this summer.

Will we find out who will be the 2026 Titan Class this weekend?

>>11589559
? It's AOE Grimlock

>>11589557
"This summer" as in 2026? Vortex was this last summer of 2025. It'll be over a year before this is all finished, it's more stretched out than even Menasor which was bad at 9 months. This might clear 14 months from Vortex to finished.

>>11589559
what >>11589565 said

>>11589569
Summer 2026, yes. He's AoP's Commander for the year.

I finally get to own a razorclaw. I always wanted this guy nut never got around to ebaying him and dbay7jusf got worse over time

>>11589587
Now that's a figure to wait on discounts for.

>>11589581
Right so going off of Silverbolt we are looking at August as fully rolled out. That's 10 months after Vortex's wave rolled out.

>>11589606
Dude, people had Silverbolt by spring.

>Nemesis prime is membership only
Lame.

>>11589632
only for the first hour then it becomes public

>>11589639
I actually saw that right as I posted. Thank god.

>89 bucks

What happened to 75? Oh well.

>>11589313
It looks like shit, it transforms like shit, it poses like shit, it has inaccuracies that classics DIDNT HAVE because they changed shit for no reason
It was a ginormous step down after siege gave us a bot that good, I actually felt ripped off

>>11589573
I thought that was just for Studio Series not Age of the Primes.

>>11589652

It is. AoP isn't getting a Titan in 2026.

>>11589639
>>11589641
Is it an hour later or November 3rd?

>>11589665
The 3rd.

>>11589313
Babies angry that it didnt have the waist swivel of the seige toy.

Articulation assholes, essentially

>>11589658
...or 2027, 2028 and 2029

>>11589672

Well, one of them. Scorn. The rest of the Dinos aren't Titan.

>>11589649
The Siege Seekers also suck ass.

>dude le tetrajet with a brick under it lmao

>>11589676
They said they're all gonna be titans

>>11589679
I thought the rest were Commander or Leader.

>>11589679

There is no way Strafe needs a Titan.

>>11589658
Well is AotP getting more than 1 commander in 2026?

>>11589686

Well, I save a hundred bucks for a few years then.

>>11589687

Not that we know of. Yet.

>>11589687
JTPrime says 2026 AOTP will get two commanders, Onslaught (which we already know) and Armada Jetfire.

>>11589693

I stand corrected. Sweet.

>>11589693
Will be cool to get two commanders that combine with things I already own.

>>11589693
Any word on Overload?

>>11589700
Go dig up a vintage one

>>11589685
but he's getting one anyway.
titan priced that is. size may vary

>>11589693
Still praying for one last Armada Optimus rerun when Jetfire drops. I've got my old Overload still, but I do not want to pay a premium markup for Optimus if I don't have to

>>11589296
Oh wow his cockpit chest is fuckhuge. And yet, his real nosecone still sticks up from behind his head

Quickstrike looks neat. But I still have my original one.

I guess this confirms he only holds one tape. Again.

>>11589189
i'm so ultra excited for Combaticons.
i love how there are tons of combaticons coming out
>top tier studio
>very cute tiny vehicles from blokees
>tiny robo-robos from blokees
COMBATICON BROS WE EATING GOOD!!!

>>11589775
I swear this is the last Soundwave I'm going to shell money out for, ever. Fuck you Hasbro.

>>11589313
People hate it because it was the classics seeker from 06 just scaled up and the classics seeker wasn't that good of a design to start with. Its nice to see an all new F-15 seeker design at CHUG size after 20 years. Please keep old good new bad posting though. It's funny.

>>11589816
Did anybody collect those big-ass CW seekers? I never held one, myself. Wasn't that mold a sort of upscale of the T30 legends one? I had that little Starscream.

>>11589817

The CW mold was am awkward Jetfire retool.

>Nemesis is 89
>After saying it would be 75
They can fuck right off, specially after o r of the minicons was discovered with an engineering issue that breaks his chest.

>>11589610
A few people but not the majority, anon said " fully rolled out."
That said: why the hell defend this garbage? You like being teased along for months to years to get FIVE figures with a bunch of OCs and other shit between them? I don't like the new combiners but holy shit this is inexcusable bullshit to just try and bait out sales.

>>11589834
Issue?

>>11589221
maybe that's why it says "changes" instead of "Converts" this time

>>11589413
what the fuck is that weapon
>>11589543
kek

>>11589840
This reads like you've never once played the third-party game

>>11589587
huh, he looks distinct enough that i'll be okay buying him even though I already have the original I guess.. but not until the upgrade kit is rereleased. Which will presumably not happen until silverbolt also gets a recolor.

>>11589850
That's not as great a defense as you think, you might as well say "Leave the billion dollar company alone"

>>11589850
>>11589857
or "small independent, company please understand"

>>11589857
Is Hasbro even still worth a billion?
If they are it must be built entirely on the back of MtG

>>11589846
They used the hoops method to secure the chest on one of the minicons, but the hoops plastic is too thin. So either it was stresses from the moment it was attached to the chest, or it broke due to tightness. We'll learn more as people get their copies.

>>11589157
Its 30 on amazon, cool toy if you like the play pattern of cyberverse

>>11589798
I'm not even bothering this time. Those cassettes look like ass.

>>11589798
No one is forcing you to buy another Soundwave, anon. You are addicted.

When are domestic places putting the next wave on pre-order? I just want Quickstrike.

>>11589828
Oh right, I never got to handle that mold at all so it's unfamiliar to me.

>>11589910
I CAN STOP WHENEVER I WANT, SHUT UP

>>11589919
Two months from now in two different waves

Mixmaster finally showed up. For the first time ever, I finally have the full Constructicon team - and, by extension, a complete Devastator.
Not going to have time to take pictures, fiddle with him, or even open him until after work, though - I'm literally walking out the door right now. Can't wait to combine everyone when I get back, though.

>>11589857
>>11589870
Not so much a defense of Hasbro as a disrespect towards anon
The combaticons are coming out approximately one per wave. That's nothing to whine about

Finally got the DNA Megatron/Tidal Wave kit. I'll be heading to work soon, so I won't be able to install it until later, but I'm pretty stoked since I've been waiting months to install it on the Tidal Wave I bought for 100 bucks.

>>11590001
be careful, G1 Megatron might try and steal this picture as coal can be used as an energy source

>>11589686
How is this shit even possible

>>11589678
Yeah the alt mode isn't great but the robot mode was fantastic and still among the best of modern TF, ER seeker on the other hand fucking sucks in both modes. Siege has misguided effort, ER doesn't even fucking have effort at all

Does your Scavenger have the hinge-doesn't-fit issue? I was expecting to have to fix mine, but it fits just fine.

Not my pic, just grabbed it for expediency sake.

>>11589959
Back when Combiner wars happen they dropped everything in one wave or two. This isn't even complaining so much as outing bad practices. Like anon said why even defend this bullshit when they use to be better than that?

>>11590068
Enshittifying and shrinkflating the toys like they have been are bad practices
Not getting characters in the order you want isn't

>>11590085
in fact, spreading out toy releases actually has benefits, as it means you won't be scrambling to pay 600 dollars for all the new releases before they sell out and then go on the aftermarket and get scalped.

>>11590085
>Not getting characters in the order you want isn't
I think it's more of what happens if the team isn't finished or worse quality control issues take root or further still what >>11588025 was getting at where the others didn't even have prototypes yet. They can't even get a backer Haslab right with just two robots combining, it's understandable to see issues that could happen with this or even the challenge of uncertain of you want the whole team or not based on what? Concept art? What if Onslaught is garbage? What if he sours and makes the whole combiner gimmick bad? Or breaks? Why would you assume they get anything right when they have a bad track record of the last five years getting a lot wrong? So that puts you in this stupid lose/lose risk of you either buy and sit on them hopping the last one or two are not lemons or wait until the last one rolls out and then have problems finding the figures from last year to finish the team.


>>11590091
It just cuts in the other direction and you get what's already happening with Devastator, Superion, and Menasor where one figure is very difficult to find due to the spreading out of several months which have wildly different shipping patterns. So really you just get the "go on the aftermarket and get scalped" anyway.

>>11589943
i am quite lucky that the things I like almost never get many releases or reimaginings.

i just wish I could get paid to review. I'd do a good job of it! I'm very thorough and I have a good voice.. but I don't feel like doing video editing, and youtube has made it very clear that your suffering is their #1 priority.

>>11590121
>but I don't feel like doing video editing,
Then you'll fit right in with Balt "no two-takes" matrix

>>11590122
i mean in my defense, I do tend to do everything in one take. but that's when I have a script

also I don't want my face in the videos.. could I make a vtuber avatar?

>>11590015
Because at the rate Hasbro's going Titans will soon be leader sized and cost $300

>>11590045
Nope, mines has perfect QC. I was wondering why everyone was complaining about scavenger.

>>11590125
just.. don't have anything reflective on the backdrop you record on, and don't do thew adams-style 'hold toy to camera', look more at that toy guy or emgo's videos

>>11590091
> it means you won't be scrambling to pay 600 dollars for all the new releases

Anon if they released the four limbs with the commander in one wave, it should cost under $200. In fact if they released the Combaticons in one wave this year you'd save about $30 due to the price hike that we know is happening for next year making the four team members cost more.

We don't even need the aftermarket now, Hasbro and it's affiliates just starts the scalping ever quarter now.

>>11590150
I remember wishing these companies would just put out more merch, since they're leaving money on the table and handing it over to scalpers
i think they learned the wrong lesson...

>>11590150
If the prediction of another 12% increase on top of what we have seen is still coming as the market is projecting it'll be more than $30. Commander would be near $120ish and Deluxe would be $32ish

>>11590155
Yeah this all feels very monkey paw doesn't it? Look at Studio Series Soundwave, that's basically what people were asking for all the way back in 2018 when Siege and Earthrise were announced/released and it took them over 7 years to make this voyager scaled bot in a very soft blue that's likely going to show stress marks easy with three cassettes(two just being the same mold) and getting it for $55 is seen as a discount price. If this is what 2026 looks like for Transformers I'm terrified to see 2027.

I got a copy of Retro Brawn and immediately returned it due to multiple qc issues visible right in the package. Had a gouge of plastic missing from his forehead, improperly painted faceplate, huge paint chip on his chest and finally his shoulders were visibly splayed out from his chest. Between here and tfw I think Ive seen all of these exact problems mentioned and this copy had them all. They are packaging him terribly. The tie downs are not only bending his shoulder joints but popping his chest open to boot. His clamshell is also not deep enough and he was slammed up against the bubble. All bad. As a last note, the package had a fine dust on it from the factory. Ive seen that ‘factory dust’ many times and I have correlated it to poor qc releases. That dust means the B team built that shit. This is why I vastly prefer finding stuff in store rather than buying online. Unfortunately they didnt have any on the shelf and I didnt think to ask them to grab more from the back. They wouldve said no anyway, they were very busy. All around a crappy experience. Sorry for the long winded rant. On the bright side my Seaspray is very clean in the QC department and dosent have any of the problems people are encountering
Tdlr another qc headache. Many such cases

>>11590166
The cassettes are also a great example of how spreading out toy releases of teams/crews just hurts the collectors, in Siege it was Ratbat and red Rumble, that was hard to find and if you wanted blue Frenzy you needed to by a 4 pack with two bots not even related to Soundwave. The Earthrise molds were even worse where if you wanted earth mode Laserbeak and Buzzsaw together you had to buy Soundwave twice, one as a $40 Walmart exclusive and the other a Leader class with another Ravage and Rumble that came out 5 years later. This isn't even looking over the exclusive Target Preceptor pack and the mess of Studio Series with $100 Rumble.

It all just feels very fucked up when a decade ago they didn't have these problems.
>Release Voyager FoC Soudwave with one disc bot
>release a case of two packs that have the remaining 4 team members
>Release the Soundblaster deco at retail with the one that wasn't in the game (Buzzsaw)
>2 Quarters later do the same with Blaster and his crew

Who in their department is making these choices? Somewhere they knew what they were doing and one day just lost the thread. Just what the fuck happen around 2018?

>>11590195
Holy shit you got pictures?

>>11590196
I never understood why didn't they just release a Soundblaster in the earthrise remold that came with buzzsaw and frenzy and Soundwave with laserbeak and rumble.

>>11590136
Woah woah, they dropped the price for Star Convoy... they're going to be voyager sized and $150.

>>11589956
I wish they had more 5mm ports on them. I would like to redo the attack modes the original toys had with the new parts, but there's just not enough spots to attach more than one gun.

>>11590045
Mine is fine, but as per the wiki:

>There are many reports of the figure have difficulty slotting the cockpit into the intended gap. If this is the case, it is best to sand down the round edges holding the cockpit part to create enough clearance to slot it in.

>>11590150
>Vortex
$26
>Brawl
$43
>Blast-off
$28
>Swindle
$43
>Onslaught
$90

That's fuckin' rough...

>>11590214
>Vortex
>$26
He started at $24, this hobby is just going full on clown world

>>11590210
Scrapper not being able to have the chest plate on the back of his alt is a crime.

>>11590196
They still know what they're doing. They're purposely pulling stunts so we have to buy the same figure over and over to get the other shit we want.
Like all the companies, they've become so money grubby that they don't care how it looks.

>>11590199
I did actually snap a pic of it..from exactly the wrong angle to show anything properly. I promise it looked much worse in person
>blue
Sloppy paint application
>purple
The whole side of his mohawk is scraped, into the plastic
>pink
Bottom of his faceplate has no paint and its all jagged bare plastic
>yellow
Bent shoulder. In fact in my pic it actually looked warped or something
>red
Paint chipped completely off the whole corner of his chest to bare plastic
>green
Its hard to tell but he is actually touching the bubble here

>>11590202
I waited and waited, and finally broke down and Ebayed the Seige Soundblaster so I could have something to go with Twincast

>>11590218
do you mean the wings for the flying mode, because he can. There's tabs on the wings that line up with the slots on the back

>>11590221
Bonus round: there is also scratches all over his faceplate and as a final fuck you, every pin still has all the excess plastic in it. Thats when you know the assembly crew fucked off

>>11590216
I think youre joking but the latest deluxes are $30 already. Thats why I used the stupid walmart app to save $5 faggoty dollars and ended up empty handed with a pending refund.
Extra fun fact of the day: Effective August 31 Walmart has stopped giving cash refund for debit card purchases

>>11590045
No, all of my Constructicons are perfect in terms of QC - which is funny, because aside from them, everything else I've gotten has been pretty shitty.

>>11590166
>If the prediction of another 12% increase on top of what we have seen
Are you talking about another price increase beyond the one sending Voyagers to $42?

I fucking called this shit like 2 years ago and again last year. Once they went over $20 for a deluxe it was over. What a shitshow

>>11590210
I also wish that trailer did more. It's just a box on wheels. Some fold out legs or something so it could become a small battle platform would've been nice.

>>11590224
wtf country has a little man on the 'don't walk' light

howdy howdy

>>11590309
i like how it even has the mecha grille on it.. well, either that or a lucky cat coin.

>>11590312
it's wildwheel's

>>11590323
wow! removable hats are not common

>>11590323
cyberverse had a lot of really good stuff huh

like not just 'decent and passable' like some of the earthspark stuff and I guess cyberworld core class replacement cyber changers

actually good toys and ideas

>>11590349
i guess individually jointed scorpion legs was asking a lot.. it's fine.

>>11590362
Ball joints are too expensive for deluxe class, please understand. We've never had deluxe arachnids have balljoints for their legs, and we've certainly never had it the past three times, so just be thankful for what you get.
Also they might have thought that it would be too cumbersome for his grabbing hand to have that many ball joints (it would have been fine)

>>11590366
I was actually thinking individual hinges would be ideal. Like one rod runs through all four legs on a given side, but the legs have individual rotations on said rod.

>>11590373
Hinges need pins and metal is expensive, plastic hinges might be cool but it might get worn out
I get what you sort of mean though and that would have been a fun bit though, he'd be able to hold smaller shit and have actual fingers instead of a clamp. But he's just a modernized upscale of the Beast Wars figure instead, huh.

>>11588589
>>11588591
I might get this mold if he's repainted as that target exclusive red guy, Skittles TC, or some other wacky G2 color pallet.

>>11590219
This is why I've almost completely stopped collecting. If they're just jerking me around then this isn't fun anymore.

>>11590380
what about sunstorm

>>11590340
after the first year, yeah

>>11590392
most transformers toylines don't have the heaviest hitters in year 1.

just passable and good stuff, usually. Great and exceptional toys come in the second and third years

>>11590379
yeah like, it already has a single hinge there, so it wouldn't be that much more expensive to do.
either way i'm just glad he has all the paint apps. i think.

>>11590396
that's certainly how Beast Wars went
wait, I looked it up. That's not so. But it FELT like the first wave was all the kinda rough ones before they super nailed it the second year.

It's back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIV2pqySpBI

>>11590401
Besides ultra Megs and Optimus, did beast wars really have that many standouts in year one? I mean, obviously at the time they were revolutionary for people who skipped g2 and didn't see all the articulation upgrades, but.. looking back, they're kinda generic. Basics were all kinda shellformers, deluxes were decent but half of them were retools/repaints of other deluxes. Scorponok was cool though.

https://www.e bay.com/itm/226977900679

>>11590414
Silverbolt, tigerhawk, quickstrike and inferno were great

>>11590402
hell yeah, late night schizophrenia

>>11590420
So were you

>>11590420
did you miss the point of the post

I'm saying that beast wars year 1 had decent toys while year 2 and 3 had the standouts

>>11590426
Oh in any case i think rhinox holds up

>>11590426
that wasn't me, fyi
uhh yeah I looked it up and I was really surprised at which toys were wave 1, because I had the impression I'd MISSED wave 1 entirely. I could never find rhinox, cheetor, rattrap..
But yeah, Razorbeast, Terrorsaur, Dinobot, Polar Claw, Scorponok.. and that's just wave 1 OF 1996. 1996 apparently had 3 waves.

>>11590427
>>11590428
They hold up, sure, but compared to g2's offerings, I think the basics and deluxes were just about average. Amazing at the time to returning g1 fans and kids used to the limited articulation of TMNT and power rangers, though

>>11590431
Pretty sure all G2 had mostly G1 redecos in its first year

>>11590433
(besides tank Megatron)
Yeah, I was thinking about the laser rods and the heroes and laser Optimus and the cyber jets since those would have been the 'standard' of the time.

sold my volcanicus b/c I didn't really care for it and love that the guy I sold it to is having the best time of his life with the thing lol

>>11590427
Really? Kinda hard to think of a more disappointing old beast wars toy that isn't named Snarl.

>>11590349
is that grimlock painted? why didnt they do the weathering thing like the original SS did

My Sandstorm/Slugslinger pack arrived. Now I can put Sandstorm on my shelf next Rodimus Prime, so Roddy can just constantly tell Sandstorm how much the planet he comes from sucks.

>>11590487
sometimes I think that Rodimus deserved more time as leader, nobody could live up to Optimus prime and he was trying his best

then I remember he was a dick like 75% of the time

which is really funny

>>11590487
>>11590489
I took his intonation to mean that Paradon was indeed a perfect planet, and his sarcastic remark was him too bemoaning the loss of an innocent and peaceful place, but then again I already like Rodimus. Also didn't help that his character growth episode was right before Optimus coming back.

>>11589469
And all the joints. Just installed metal pins in his wrists tonight to keep his hands from popping off. Also painted the inside section of his ankle orange. I forgot to do that.

>>11589543
YES! He's a happy bug.
>>11589849
I think the original G1 has an axe but this is more like a cestus (punching blade)
>>11589451
You'll love him. He has some weird grey tabs on the back of his knees that you have to fold out in order to fold the legs up into bug mode. I don't know what they do? You can remove them if they....but you...and at first I thought they were locking plates or gap covers but they're tiny and do zip but flap behind his knees?

>>11590511
damn son, you INSTALLED pins?

Why the fuck is SS86 Ratchet so goddamn expensive on the secondary market?

>>11590516
Almost all pins/holes are standard diameter for transformers. Just get a drill bit that matches and you can pin just about anything. You can see his toes were supposed to be pinned, and evidences by the pin holes to nowhere on the sides of his foot but they went with plastic tabs. Fortunately his toes are sturdy, but his hands falls off.

Now can anyone tell me WHAT THE GRAY FLAPS DO?!?

>>11590527
At this angle (as they sit in bot mode) they impede transformation and you can't fold up the legs into abdomen mode.

>>11590526
sure but where'd you get the pin?

>>11590530
But if you click them flat they fit into the little pocket there. But if you completely remove them, nothing happens. They don't hold anything in, don't tab to anything that I can see, what gives?

>>11590531
One came from Skullcruncher's gator neck hinge. The other one came from a Skullgrin's chest hinge. (I have thousands of parts and pieces)

>>11590533
aw man, I was hoping there was some obvious source for them.

>>11590531
>>11590516
To be fair I mod just about every Transformer I own. Adding new hands, new head, sculpting new pieces (like the chest chunk for rocky there and gave him a ball joint neck)

>>11590535
Kinda. Go to Walmart and buy a couple of bags of their brads/nails/picture hanging nails until you find the right diameter. Those are a lot easier to clip and sand (and remove) than stock pins.

Make sure to change up your Grapple heads to give everyone their own look!

>>11590536
fuckin awesome, dude. I need to do a handswapjob on Bluebolts because she has the tiniest hands..
>>11590538
wouldn't those have a head on them that kinda gets in the way of it being a pin?

>>11590539
That's why you get one of these babies, a RadioShack Cold Heat soldering tool (and conical tip) as it directs electrical energy to heat ONLY the pin itself allowing you to pull the heads right off without melting anything like a normal soldering tool that gets hot. Like Classics Prime has a really annoying neck pin at an angle and every time someone wants me to make a permanent Parallax kit conversion I just remove the old head and keep it. Works for G1 figs, stripped screws, all sorts of metal-heat applications.

Swap away and take some pics!

>>11590547
You can touch the axel to remove wheels, touch flat head pins and push them out, you can even touch it to your finger and nothing happens! Be careful around electroplating tho like taking apart the Lucky Draw gold figs because if you touch the surface it can instantly blister the plating straight off the plastic if there's not a clear coat on top! You can only find them on eBay but I'm sure there's another knockoff brand, maybe on Temu or something.

Getting a laser cut micro filesaw helps too! It allows you to make super thin cuts, like how I got Trailblazer's arm panels off and back onto his legs for this mod.

>>11590556
The micro saws are super flimsy but man do they cut right through the hard abs plastic! You just gotta hold the piece still and keep your saw straight. Buy a couple sets because you'll go through your favorite sawblade eventually, getting dull.

>>11590547
you can just get the head of a nail off that way?? that seems.. implausible.

>>11589775
Christ those Cassettes are ass

It begins

>>11590596
aww sorry to see that anon.. a zoid i bought just developed a cracked gear. it's never fun.

>>11590561
Yep, as long as you can touch the end of the Cold Heat tool to part of the metal, anywhere on the pin, it'll heat up and allow you to pull the part free or the pin out if you have a grip on it. Best part is no damage. You can re-heat the pin and reinsert it if you wish, just use plastic tweezers to hold the pin.

>>11590596
Damn, the Star Saber minicons are cursed. My original Sonar's hilt cracked years ago due to stressed clear plastic. I thought these would be a good replacement, but after seeing that I'm not so sure

>>11590596
Fine, I will get FH minicon packs.

>>11590045
Yea mine's fine but unfortunately Ee's got e beeg ol am ands ye
For andlin ams I spose

>>11590618
ANCHOR ARMS

NOW I'M A JERK AND EVERYONE LOVES ME

>>11590596
hope there's some preventive fix to it

>>11590596
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/10113927628
It's caused by hamhanding the hinge without sliding the pin all the way, right?

So is Retro Outback supposed to be available now or not or what? He's showing up as out of stock on Walmart's site.

>>11590707
I believe what we've seen so far are leaks
So no

These guys look bigger than I anticipated, or is that just a trick of the camera?

>>11590735
I think they were also big deluxe/small voyager in size
That might be the most flattering picture of Unalivebison so far

>>11590707
>>11590725
I lied
https://www.walmart.com/ip/TRA-GEN-RETRO-OUTBACK/17323523532?clickid=3NlWI-WiAxycUvYW9rT3l09sUkp34n0xUU6JVc0&irgwc=1&sourceid=imp_3NlWI-WiAxycUvYW9rT3l09sUkp34n0xUU6JVc0&veh=aff&wmlspartner=imp_1390754&affiliates_ad_id=565706&campaign_id=9383&sharedid=cmevv4wii000mj1cf5i4j85do

>>11590702
no its caused by shitty cheap hasbro plastic

>>11590735
>>11590739
What is the next Haslab?

>>11590596
Fuck sake Hasbro
>>11590610
I've got the star saber and skyboom shield minicons so far. Biggest issues I have are some joints/connections are tight, and they're just a bit too big from OG minicons.
Otherwise? Far better than this shit.

>>11590735
What’s that black thing with wheels?

>>11590753
Tron

>>11590768
combiner pants

>>11590774
??

>>11590780
It's the waist for Liokaiser. It's a separate piece that attaches to Jaruga, sort of like the trailer for Long Haul

>>11590753
No, I mean whats the next TF Haslab?

>>11590785
Tron

are we ever gonna get a good optimus without a fake grill
why does mpg need a fake grill when its not going for toon accuracy

>>11590707
>Wheelie and Outback
I figured they would be dropping today but they are a preorder for March. Also they arent taking my card with no money on it. Im not letting them put a hold on my card for a figure that dosent come out for 5 months. Oh well.

>>11590735
They're actually looking pretty good here. The big concern is going to be QC, though, especially after the disaster that has been Omega Prime.

>>11590793
It's working now, but you're right. It's a preorder for March.
before, you couldn't even do that.

>even TFW is seething about Nemesis being $90
lol
Hasbro really fumbled here

>>11590835
>>11590837
Well, they were right when they said it'd be a lot more OC than the first set
The Starscream is pretty basic (thankfully not just an Airrazor remold again) but that Oxtimus is pretty cool

>>11590837
oh thats very cool. Dont know the source material but it reminds me of a sentai robo lol.

>that's it
kek

>>11590835
>>11590837
Is that a wooden ox
Is that Guan Yu's guandao
Are these Three Kingdoms Transformers

>>11590768
His pantsu

>>11590837
>>11590835
>we are not doing any fan art or 3p designs
>we are doing that one bird Starscream but worse
GIVE ME MY SPINOWAVE

>>11590835
>>11590837
UH OH CHINKY

The one people care about

The other one

>>11590885
which airrazor retool is this

>>11590891
Filch?

>>11590596
>that’ll be $90 plus tip
>oh, you aren’t a premium member?
>that’ll be $140 plus tip if you want it right now

>>11590882
I'm liking the little details on Starscream
Like the chest being molded to look like a robe and the null rays being matchlocks

>>11590869
From what I can tell the cart is most of the robot and the ox hinges back and ginrais into the chest cavity

>>11590835
>>11590837
>This is what they were so excited about that they couldn't stop talking about it while showing off HoS stuff
Uhh...okay? The Ox Cart is neat I guess? The chinks will probably eat it up. Still waiting on my HoS Shockwave.

>>11590884
>>11590889
$80 btw kek

>>11590923
>Still waiting on my HoS Shockwave.
Should have bought more HoS sets then

>>11590923
>Still waiting on my HoS Shockwave.
I'll explain it to you as clearly as I can so you understand: the timelines figures they're doing are four figures a year in two two-packs, and the only characters that they are doing are Optimus, Megatron, Bee, and Starscream. No Shitwave for you.

>>11590785

Early next year.

>>11590835
>>11590837

Eh, Optimus is neat I guess. Maybe Megs and Bee will be better.

>>11590885
Who's this supposed to be?

>>11590971
Its Starscream.

>>11590884
Wow it has the better fusion cannon

>>11590884
>>11590889
Want me to slagging slag these punks? I can do it.

Disclaimer: This fusion cannon is not identical to the SS86 Megatron's version, since it's not designed to transform into a tank turret.

>>11590707
He's up on Pulse now, I just ordered him.

>>11590884
>>11590889
>One episode thing, Cartoon: >:(
>One episode thing, Comic: :O

>>11591014
Who the fuck are you quoting?

>>11591014
It was actually around for over a year
Now the question is why didn't they capitalize on it then, instead of now, 4 months after Prime threw the arm away.

>>11591031
Takes a year to design a toy. Or something.

>>11591031
Well it only took two full years for that Void Rival set to come out

>>11590869
>>11590879
>>11590882
>>11590885
These are 100% either homages to Transformers Go, or pretools for Prime and Hishoumaru.

>>11590835
>>11590879
Cool that they're finally getting around to Studio Ox designs

The box art is pretty cool

>>11591014
>one episode thing
Actually it was for like well over a year in the comics. It was a huge plot point and something Prime only did out of desperation because he sacrificed the last bit of energy in the Matrix to help keep a hospital of humans alive instead of using the energy to repair himself. You probably won't find a plot element of even that level of relatively basic depth in the entirety of the sunbow series.

I know you're just a disgruntled, shitposting tooner, but I do love pointing retardation, even if it means giving a (You).

>>11591068

It also started infecting him and tainted the Matrix.

>>11591057
Damn I'll have to get 2.

>>11590879
You know what? Fuck it. This is probably the most creative Transformer design I've seen in ages. While I'm not as enthused about Starscream (they really, REALLY don't know how to do birds properly, do they?), I'll probably get this just for Prime - he'll go nicely with my Crimsonflame.

>>11590884
>No trailer
>So Optimus, who we were already told is a leader by himself, costs 80 instead of 60-65 (standard leader pricing these days) depsite lacking all rubbery parts, trailer and roller.
Man, I fucking hate Hasbro

>>11591144
Are you sure no trailer?

>>11591144
>>11591148
The trailer is just offscreen

>>11591057
>>11591062
whatever you do, don't pack the two leaders together. That would make too much sense. Each leader needs his own 2 pack.

>>11590866
I DONT KNOW WHY
IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER THE SIZE CLASS YOU BUY
KEEP THAT IN MIND
I PRE-ORDERED THIS TIME

ITS ALL I KNOW
CASH IS A VALUABLE THING
WATCH IT DRY UP AS THE SIZE CLASSES SHRINK

(I can't think of anything to continue this with)

>>11590884
>$80
Kiss my ass hasbro. Theyre going nuts

>>11591173
"Muh tariffs, please understand"

>>11590889
Lol wtf is this shit

>>11590601
I feel like you're not really grokking the part that amazes me here, about using a nail as a replacement pin, and the necessity of removing the head on one end (and also any superfluous length of the nail I guess) with a simple heating-up tool that I assume uses induction

>>11590884
>Headsculpt is more accurate to the movie than the SS86 one
So they can do it if they want to

>>11591196
Hes not grokking at all hes out here doing dad fixes on his lil tf figgies

>>11590884
>that cannon
Im gonna wig out

>same size
That will be $43 ;)

>>11590879
USHI ORIGAMIIIII!

>>11591210
>$43
Where do you get your figures with no sales tax? Also do you spend gas to hunt them down or do get them shipped free. Because these are now over $50’with tax and shipping

>>11591210
>ugly face
>nosecone sticking up behind his head
>ugly gray plastic
>no greebles at all
>no ribcage
>Oversized wings
>oversized cockpit
>exposed joints on the front of his bare thihgs
>partsformer
>$47 after tax, before shipping or mileage
Big yikes

>>11591177
My thoughts exactly! I wonder how difficult it would be to swap out parts on the windows with the regular SS86 Optimus so that he doesn't have to keep those annoying little rectangles on the sides.

>>11591196
Gonna have to use English with me, that's all I speak. I have no clue what you're saying here.

>>11591076
That's retarded

>>11591220
>Oh no, Thundercracker finally looks like Thundercracker instead of a slab with skin condition, the horror

Imagine not thinking that the ER mold is utter shit since day one. So glad I skipped most releases from that era

>>11591251
enjoy your $50 voyagers

>>11591258
The thrust and ramjet reissues are going to be 50 burgers as well btw, difference is they'll look and play like total shit

>>11588009
I guess it means the demographics for people who online shop at launch and people who buy when they feel like it are different.

>>11591210
Is this a real pic? They look like they're just floating on the table.
If real I'm surprised the new mold doesn't share the same size creep we've been seeing in other 86 figures lately. I actually prefer this because if they do Sunstorm I can grab him and he won't look too out of place with my ER seekers.

Am I doing something wrong, or does Sideways' shield thing not actually tab in where it looks like in vehicle mode?

>>11591258
Between the price hikes and talks of serious global war, his hobby doesn't have much longer.

>>11591231
Impossible because those look molded. I was pointing out how the sides of the window frames are the same color as the windows

>>11590884
were that many people impressed with that arc? I didn't like it

>>11591278
>Is this a real pic? They look like they're just floating on the table.
It's a screenshot of the livestream, so yes it's real. Between Screamer being posed by leaning back on his tail fins instead of flat on his toes, the fact that the table itself is made of frosted glass and is thus partially transparent, and the artifacting because it's a grab of a moving video, the 'floating' is just an optical illusion.

>>11591304
Starscream is also a ghost

>>11591283
Whoa, good catch! I didn't even notice that!

>>11591148
It was 89 with the trailer and all accesories. There's no way it's included.

>>11591280
It does but it doesn't integrate into the alt mode as smoothly as the original toy. Just make sure his fists are rotated palm up in alt mode.

I just finished Beast Wars Neo and want a Big Convoy because he's fucking kino.
I saw this while searching and it says spring 2026, is there an actual date yet though any anons know?

>>11590045
Yeah mine can't fit in properly. The hinge pieces were too separated, so I used some pliers to fit them together more and it fits in *slightly* better.

>>11590835
what the
>>11590837
wwwwwowww... that... is fucking tragic.

>>11590885
alright it looks a lot better from this angle, and with the legs positioned properly.

>>11591057
>>11591062
gorgeous box art.
next time put that much work into the toys instead.

>>11591205
i know, and I'm just trying to get instructions. dads know these things.

Give your ranking on the SS86 Constructicons from best to worst.

-Long Haul
-Hook
-Scrapper
-Mixmaster
-Bonecrusher
-Scavenger

>>11591220
how the fuck are oversized wings even possible
>>11591241
how do you use a nail as a pin? pins are one width all the way along, nails have a head.
how does a soldering tool help remove the head? Because that's what it sounded like you were saying.

>>11591447
Don't have Scavenger yey
>Long Haul - chonky, the two sets of knees are smart
>Scrapper - most articulations
>Hook
>Bonecrusher - t-rex arms
>Mixmaster - inhibited shoulders

>>11591366
who the fuck approved a trunk with a pinned hinge like that.. jesus that looks stupid. even being THREE pieces on ball joints would have been better.

>>11591276
>people who buy when they feel like it
are there people who can still do that? Actually just find a figure they want, casually?

Mmmm num num give me fitty bucks nigga mmmmm num num num

>>11591177
>>11591283
>the sides of the window frames are the same color as the windows

Looking at my SS86 Optimus Prime, it's the same way. The windows are a separate piece that are popped it, with a tiny bit of red paint going around the frame of the window (except for where the frame stops at the windshield wiper, which is part of the chest door piece). It looks like the same thing here, except instead of translucent blue plastic with a slightly metallic base under it, this one appears to be either opaque plastic or completely painted over blue.

This guy is awesome! My first ever, complete Devastator! I like how chunky and sturdy he feels in combined mode compared to my PotP Abominus or CW G2 Superion.
Speaking of the latter, what are the odds of us getting a modern G2 Superion? For that matter, has there been any word on G2 Wildrider or Motormaster yet?

>>11591491
I don't know how other people feel about it, but I would buy the heck out of a yellow G2 Devastator, and possibly a G2 Superion. The one I'm really hoping for is a G2 Bruticus. For some reason, I just love the G2 combiners color schemes!

>>11591499
Not before they finish Menasor

>>11591499
>I would buy the heck out of a yellow G2 Devastator
Same - I was originally going to hold off on buying any of the Constructicons the way I did with the Aerialbots in hopes of a G2 release, but I got impatient. When I was a kid, I owned G2 Scavenger, while my other two brothers had G2 Mixmaster and G2 Scrapper (hence why this is my first complete Devastator - my parents at the time didn't know what a combiner was and didn't know there was a box set, so we each got one 'bot and that was it), so in my mind, the yellow G2 colors are the 'correct' ones anyway.

>>11591447
Long Haul
Bonecrusher
Scavenger
Hook
Scrapper
Mixmaster

Long Haul is just a lot of fun to play with, simple to switch back and forth and takes any pose I put him in. People look down on the arm guys and I get it but Bonecrushers dumpy proportions and Scavengers overall strange shape is a lot more interesting and memorable than the rest to me. They also feel more dynamic for some reason, maybe its the balljoints and long legs. The rest are pretty basic design wise but I don't mind them.

The wee little ox

The fan is a good accessory for Starscream's level of theatrics

>>11591499
>but I would buy the heck out of a yellow G2 Devastator, and possibly a G2 Superion. The one I'm really hoping for is a G2 Bruticus.
Based on how G2 Menasor is shaking out I wouldn't be too optimistic about any of these.

>>11591530
Reminder that G2 Wildrider was teased in January this year, and not only has there been no sign nor listing for him G2 Motormaster is going to cost something ungodly after the price hikes.

>>11591512
Similar situation with me. I only had a G2 Mixmaster as a kid, so to me, the Constructicons were yellow. I'm kinda bummed that we don't really get to see them in that deco anymore, minus the recent half-baked Tonka recolor set, but that lacked the bright purple secondary color..

>>11591530
>Based on how G2 Menasor is shaking out I wouldn't be too optimistic about any of these.
You're probably right, but I wonder how much of the problem with G2 Menasor is due to a genuine lack of interest versus the nonsensical release schedule and horrible distribution issues. Both Dragstrip and Breakdown were a pain to find at stores, and the only reason Dead End was easier for me was because one of the Walmarts near me got an unusually large number of Toxitron cases.

>>11590971
Retard.

>>11590885
OOOOOOOOOOOH I GET IT NOW

He's an F-15 Eagle

>>11590885
How many rehashes of kingdom airazor do we need??

Everyone talks about yellow G2 Devastator, but no one talks about orange G2 Devastator.

>>11590889
The fusion cannon is supposed to go on the roof, not the back of the cab.

>>11591755
small company, please understand

>>11591755
It probably tilts...maybe...

>>11591755
He could do both in the comic, and there does appear to be a hinge on the cannon's base.

>>11591712
The only Constructicon I ever had was G2 orange Scavenger.

>>11591518
i don't like to shit on people's lives but
are they aware that I would do better at the job of posing toys? and I'm available. I mean I'm not, I don't live there, but... I need money, and I'd do it better than _that_

>>11591354
Thanks. It seems to connect better now.

>>11591519
It's pretty awesome that his robot mode is modeled after a crow tengu. Even the way his chest intakes look is reminiscent of their outfits.

>>11591700
oh god dammit

>>11591831
ohhhhh
i'm a huge mythologyfag, I feel like a jerk for not picking up on that
point of odor though: there are yama tengu and crow tengu, this is the former (human with wings and a long nose). the latter looks like an anthro bird (yeah one of these has a beak, but that's not the same)

>>11590882
Shouldn't his nose be a lot longer for a tengu?

>>11591519
That beast mode is really rough looking. Despite doing about the same thing as Airazor, it feels less like a bird. Maybe it is his blocky limbs. Demon Emperor Megatron should be really cool though.

>>11591835
Point of point of order: The crow-headed Karasu Tengu are the originals. The more humanoid ones came later, and were the result of people conflating the crow monsters with territorial, hermit-like priests who had moved into the mountains to escape persecution for their beliefs; the long nose these later 'Yama Tengu' were depicted with are the remnants of what was originally a Karasu' beak. Thus, all Tengu are technically crow Tengu.
>>11591836
In this case, Starscream is indeed a Karasu Tengu - look at the shape of his helmet. This is why he doesn't have the long nose of a Yama Tengu.

>>11590735
I have absolutely Z E R O faith in this scam and await the buyer's remorse from retards
The Omega Prime is a colossal disaster and a literal scam. There's no way they changed that fast and this is good

>>11591849
Can you say 'scam' a few more times? I didn't quite catch that.

>>11591847
Well-added, my good man
Of course in my mythos it's t'other way 'round. A particular kinda fairy fucked a crow, and later they fucked enough crows to make them actually look like crows. but that's the fun part of fantasy, you can do as you like.
>his helmet has the bird shape
oh. I didn't see that. Kind of a low-budget Gatchaman look.

>>11591755
No it’s not, the ones on top are wrong, it’s supposed to be the exhaust pipes in truck mode
It’s actually better than all the upgrade kits

>>11591519
As an old school Dynasty Warriors fan, its giving me Sima Yi vibes, which suits Starscream perfectly.

we seriously need to bring back ball-socket-troughs. so you can slide parts along..

>>11591712
I honestly wish they do halfsies for a G2 Devastator recolor for the Studio Series 86 version. Again, Diaclone bias because every single modern take on each of these 1984 G1 toys feel like remakes of the Car Robot, Construction Robo and Dino Robo stuff, and pardon the excuses, but we could get a yellow right leg and arms, and orange left leg and torso for all the efforts, and if that ain't enough, a yellow drum for Mixmaster to further match the Diaclone colors.

Side note, with Leader Optimus Prime being our first Comic Edition toy that is labeled as such, do you think the only addition from the stock photo would be an effect part for the fusion cannon? A bright red effect instead of orange or purple would do.

>>11591847
>>11591853
Starscream being a crow is also funny because in Japan the word for noise a crow makes ("Aho") is also a word for idiot.
>Megatron: At last, my plan to harness the electricity of Japan's catfish population is almost complete and the Autobots will be vanquished forever!
>Crowscream: Aho! Aho! Aho! Aho!

>>11590882
Touhou repaint when?

>>11591902
I'd buy an AyaScream. We'd need a Momiji to go with her, though.

>>11590884
Already got mine months ago
You may be cucked if you get this

>>11591901
crows being hecklers seems to be one of those very common cultural things.

>>11591057
>>11591062
Too chinese for me

>>11591897
No, absolute hard pass. Doing it that way would please NONE of the people who want a G2 Devastator. Since you seem to want a Diaclone version, that might make you happy, but that would be the worst way to make a G2 one by ensuring neither the people who want a yellow one, nor the people who want an orange one, get what they want. It might sound like a good move to you individually, but it would come at the expense of everyone else.

>>11591951
Isn’t it Japanese?

>>11591956
same difference

>>11591897
See, things like this, G2 dev either yellow or orange, should be what Hasbro pulse is about.

Get a box set that slightly premium price, just color reissue so no extra cost.

But nope.

>>11591967
it is fucking bizarre how often they're leaving recolors on the table these days. so many beast guys they haven't bothered with.

A poster attempting to prevent the Star Saber breakage
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/10116245370
Their piece has signs of the pin gouging the slot (pic). So aside from weak plastic and design, the pinning process isn't very accurate either.

>>11592038
This seems so strange. paying so much for a figure and/or wasting the time to pick it up and to then have to waste even more time to make sure you don't break it.

>>11591972
fewer figures are being made and you can tell they are trying to reduce inventory to avoid clearance outs. Consider that 2026 Deluxe and Voyager waves are now two figures each. Listings show 2026 wave one/1QT of AoP is Quintus Prime and Blast Off with and wave 2/2QT is Sureshot, Quick Strike. We don't even know where Junkion Jalopy fits in this. If China keeps the heat up things could get even tighter and it's one class size figure a quarter and online only. Walmart and Target both are talking about reducing or even eliminating toys and sporting good sections by 2027.

>>11592082
This post helps me understand how spoiled transformers fans are.

>>11592094
Can you blame the "collectors" though?

Like if you're talking about plastic models that you have to put together yourself
Unless the kit itself is no good, whatever fuckups that happened, it's your fault. No one else's.
You can either quit or do better next time

The problem is with factory assembled toys, you paid the money but you don't really control how good the qualities are.

It's not just transformers. Have you seen how screwed up constantly bandai with their metal robot and meta build line. And they charge like twice the price as most large MP figures for them.

The least you should have is for thing not to break on you when you trying to do thing to the thing is designed to do.

I wonder if people is willing to pay $30 for a deluxe figure and more for other classes if Hasbro can promise at those prices you literally won't be getting any figure with any QC problem- kinda like the current diaclone line. But the problem is I think parents are still buying transformers toy for their children.

>>11592115
I don't blame any collector for being mad that their expensive toy is broken out of the box, I've been there as have most people that collect toys long enough. I find you saying it seems strange to be funny is all, spoiled even. Toys with tight tolerances that require you to open them up and immediately go to work fixing the shit QC are not rare and not a new phenomenon. Things will always screw up between the design process and actual production. That most transformers work out of the box and are mass market releases is kind of amazing when you really think about it. Prices will rise and quality will always be on the edge of workable and disaster, nothing new under the sun while businesses squeeze out as much profit as possible. Thats then end of my TFW esque rant lol

>>11592115
I doubt paying $30 will solve QC errors, just become the new normal price.

>>11591447
Long Haul
Scrapper
Mixmaster
Scavenger
Hook
Bonecrusher

>>11592094
>expecting a toy to not break itself makes you spoiled
you sound like the HasLab shills on tfw2005.

>>11592137
Wait till you read my next response, your blood will boil and make you think you are back there.

>>11591902
If I end up getting the set I will take a pic of Tenguscream with figma Shameimaru for sure. And of Optimus with >>11591214

>>11592094
>Hasbro: "Give me $55 and you can have this toy robot"
>Customer: "deal"
>Customer: *receives broken item*
How dare Customer complain, spoiled!

>>11591447
>>11591462
>>11591513
>>11592136
It's funny that Long Haul #1 is the only commonality for all these

>>11592175
I guess you could say

he's the winner by a long shot

Does anyone have that pic of the leaked figure from 2021 with “nigger” plastered all over it?

>>11592175
Makes me happy because as a kid only familiar with the toys, Long Haul was the leader in my mind. It just made sense, his head design is so different and he is the core of Devastator, and now he has the extra combiner bits as a trailer

>>11591846
>>11591902
Slipstream repaint when?

Thundercracker and Windcharger are up on Amazon

lmao

>>11592250
Transformers collectors cannot be trusted with individual hip skirts at this price point. Please understand

>>11592083
i hope it all ends quickly and abruptly instead of drawing it out.
>>11592132
well that is the issue. the money never goes to the workers
we need to get rid of CEOs entirely. just tell them all to go home.

>the image of Thundercracker from TFTM is actually Skywarp
LOL
I'm not sure which more retarded, this or Soundwave's image being a Youtube screencap.

>>11592258
This is total doomerism. The Transformers brand is absolutely not going anywhere. Even if it was dying, they absolutely would draw it out for years. Hypothetically speaking they could just keep reissuing figures forever and they’ll continue to sell. I think you want the brand to die so you you can gloat about how you never bought any in the first place or some other twisted autistic bullshit

>>11592260
He wants the toy line to die so he can stop experiencing the constant and excruciating pain of missing out on every release

>>11592259
Windcharger's is just a poster of the movie because his only screentime is him being dead kek

>>11592260
i meant everything

>>11592262
Ive made my peace with Windcharger, he looks like hes going to be fun. I think I can look past the weird ankles. My biggest gripe is that he was the perfect opportunity to finally give us some fat racing tires and yet we still get these puny discs. There is clearly more than enough room inside his leg for them to be much wider. Im so sick of these little wafer wheels they look ridiculous

>>11592262
Studio Series, Studio not included

>>11592262
>unnecessary face gimmick
>even more unnecessary magnet effect
>giant protrusion sticking out of his chest with a gaping hole
>no wrists
>ugly blaster pistol
>completely hollow from the side
>ankle rockers up at his knees
>inside of entire lower leg is a hollow space
>car mode proportions are totally fucked
>gaping hole in the grille
>puny wheels
Who am I kidding this actually looks awful. The only saving grace is gonna be his transformation. It looks like his feet form the back and the front end of the car

>>11592259
I hope they make Skywarps box shot into a shot of Thundercracker just to even things out

What even is this facial expression? Looks like my girlfriend when she finds out I ate her chips

>>11592277
the fuck, anon
she's supposed to eat YOUR chips. that's how that works.

>>11592262
they really couldn't have just put this in the generations line?